Jesse and Ramon are a happy, loving couple but after years trying to get
pregnant they turn to adoption, relieved to think that once they
navigate the bureaucratic path to parenthood they will finally be able
to bring a child into their family. But nothing prepared them for the
labyrinthine process—for the many training sessions and approvals, for
the ocean of advice, for the birthmothers who would contact them but not
choose them, for the women who would call claiming that they had chosen
Jesse and Ramon but weren’t really pregnant. All the while, husband and
wife grapple with notions of race, class, culture, and changing family
dynamics as they navigate the difficult, absurd, and often
heart-breaking terrain of domestic open adoption.

From Amazon:Unexpectedly widowed Gwen-Laura Consadine is still mourning her husband
Edwin when her older sister Margot invites her to join forces as
roommates in Margot’s luxurious Village apartment. For Margot, divorced
amid scandal (hint: her husband was a fertility doctor), and then made
Ponzi-poor, it’s a chance to shake Gwen out of her grief and help make
ends meet. To further this effort, she enlists a third boarder, the
handsome, gay, cupcake-baking Anthony.

As the three swap
money-making schemes and timid Gwen ventures back out into the dating
world, the arrival of Margot’s paroled ex in the efficiency apartment
downstairs creates not just complications but the chance for all sorts
of unexpected forgiveness.

Kate's in the middle of the biggest meeting of her career when she
gets the telephone call from Grace Hall, her daughter’s exclusive
private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Amelia has been suspended,
effective immediately, and Kate must come get her daughter—now. But
Kate’s stress over leaving work quickly turns to panic when she arrives
at the school and finds it surrounded by police officers, fire trucks,
and an ambulance. By then it’s already too late for Amelia. And for
Kate.

An academic overachiever despondent over getting caught cheating has jumped to her death.
At least that’s the story Grace Hall tells Kate. And clouded as she is
by her guilt and grief, it is the one she forces herself to believe.
Until she gets an anonymous text: She didn’t jump. Reconstructing Amelia
is about secret first loves, old friendships, and an all-girls club
steeped in tradition. But, most of all, it’s the story of how far a
mother will go to vindicate the memory of a daughter whose life she
couldn’t save.